Assault Rifle Parts And Ammo Found In Austin Dumpster
May 26, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
Assorted parts from assault rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition Tuesday were found stashed in a North Austin dumpster.
Austin police say someone noticed the weapons inside the dumpster outside the Contempo Apartments 5000 block of Swanee near Lamar and Airport Blvd. around 11:30 a.m.
Austin police officers and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms pulled the upper receivers of eight assault rifles and box after box of ammunition. It took several hours to collect and inspect.
People who live on the dead-end street watched with worry.
“It’s so quiet out here you hardly ever think of anything like that,” said Richard Marquez.
Marquez has lived at a house a few yards from the dumpster for several decades. He watched in shock on Tuesday as agents wrapped the gun parts in white pieces of cloth and tucked them into the trunk of a patrol car.
“Who put it there? That’s the scary part. We still live here with our windows open and sit out here in the afternoon,” said Marquez.
Detectives don’t know who hid the weapons in the dumpster or why. Agents with the ATF say the upper receivers do not have serial numbers which makes them difficult to track.
“The neighborhood is a decent neighborhood. Everybody’s pretty friendly, but there are a few vagrants that come into the neighborhood,” said Jeremy Withrow.
What a waste! With ammo as scarce as it is now that’s a lot of money. Are the police looking for the owner? I’m willing to bet that the items were stolen. Either that or a ticked off ex- tossed her boyfriends stuff out of spite.
Of course upper receivers don’t have serial numbers. They never do since they are not a firearm. Only the lower needs a serial number.
It never cease to amaze me the stuff that puts the bliss ninnies into a tizzy. I want to know what idiot dumped uppers and ammo into a dumpster when he could have made good money selling them in this market. It’s in Austin, TX, where it is perfectly leagal to possess, buy, and sell these things anywhere, without a license, all day long.
This is news?
are people really that stupid that they fire ammo and rifle parts? OMG what will they do when they find out they drive bombs around everyday? you do know that one gallon of gas has the equivalent to 14 sticks of dynamite and the average car hold 20 gallons of gas that equals 280 sticks of TNT.
you can have ten thousand guns pointed at you and they will never hurt you unless someone is behind the trigger
I wish I could find rifle parts and expensive ammo in the dumpsters around my house.
Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Such a waste of uppers and ammo. This really makes me sad.
that makes me want to cry. uppers are still hard to find, and ammo is still expensive. I have 5 AR15’s that still need to be built and those uppers would have been nice. what kind of liberal loser sees that and turns it over to the cops???